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Description

A genet (pronounced or ) is a member of the genus Genetta, which consists of 14 to 17 species of small African carnivorans.Genet fossils from the Pliocene have been found in Morocco. The common genet is the only genet present in Europe and occurs in the Iberian Peninsula and France.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetta, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9745126	https://www.gbif.org/species/9745126
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41003	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41003

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Viverridae : Genetta

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Ferae	Linnaeus 1758
-	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
-	Carnivoraformes	Flynn et al.
order	Carnivora	Bowditch 1821
suborder	Feliformia	Kretzoi 1945
superfamily	Aeluroidea	Flower 1869
family	Viverridae	Gray 1821
genus	Genetta	G

Scientific Name

Genetta G

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Genetta	genus	belongs to Viverrina	stated without evidence	Gray, 1825
Genetta	genus	belongs to Viverrinae	stated with evidence	Mivart, 1882
Genetta	genus	belongs to Viverridae	stated without evidence	Kurten, 1968
Genetta	genus	belongs to Viverrinae	stated without evidence	Hendey, 1974
Genetta	genus	belongs to Viverridae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Genetta	genus	belongs to Viverridae	stated without evidence	Geraads, 1997
Genetta	genus	belongs to Viverridae	stated with evidence	Gaubert et al., 2004
Genetta	genus	belongs to Carnivora	stated without evidence	Silcox et al., 2010
Genetta	genus	belongs to Viverridae	stated without evidence	Werdelin and Peigne, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

12 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore, insectivore (based on Viverridae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetta

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Genetta abyssinica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta amer species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta angolensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta bettoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta bini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta bourloni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta cristata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta dongolana species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Genetta genetta species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Common Genet	6	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Genetta grantii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta johnstoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta letabae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta ludia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta maculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta pardina species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	West African Large Spotted Genet			0 Ma Extant
Genetta piscivora species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Aquatic Genet			0 Ma Extant
Genetta poensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta rubiginosa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Haussa Genet			0 Ma Extant
Genetta senegalensis species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Genetta servalina species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Servaline Genet			0 Ma Extant
Genetta stuhlmanni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Genetta suahelica species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Genetta terrae-sanctae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta thierryi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Genetta tigrina species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Cape Genet	4	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Genetta victoriae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Osbornictis J.A.Allen, 1919	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Viverridae : *Osbornictis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1816	Genetta Cuvier
1816	Genetta (Genetta) Cuvier
1825	Genetta Gray p. 339
1830	Viverra maculata Gray p. 9
1882	Genetta Mivart p. 142
1919	Osbornictis Allen p. 25
1949	Pseudogenetta Dekeyser
1960	Paragenetta Kuhn
1968	Genetta Kurten p. 62

Year	Name and Author
1974	Genetta Hendey p. 83
1977	Genetta Ginsburg p. 229
1988	Genetta Carroll
1997	Genetta Geraads p. 130
2003	Genetta maculata Gaubert et al. p. 45
2004	Genetta Gaubert et al. p. 124
2010	Genetta Silcox et al.
2010	Genetta Werdelin and Peigne p. 628

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Gray J. E. An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe, Annals of Philosophy, new series 10, 337-344

Mivart St. G. On the Classification and Distribution of the Aeluroidea, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882, 135-208

Allen J. A. (1919) Preliminary notes on African Carnivora, Journal of Mammalogy 1 1, 23-31

Kurten B. (1968) Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, 1-317

Hendey Q. B. (1974) The Late Cenozoic Carnivora of the South-Western Cape Province, Annals of the South African Museum 63, 1-369

Ginsburg L. (1977) Les carnivores du Miocene de Beni Mellal (Maroc), Geologie Mediterraneene 4 3, 225-240

Geraads D. (1997) Carnivores du Pliocene terminal de Ahl al Oughlam (Casablanca, Maroc), Géobios 30 1, 127-164

Gaubert P., Tranier M., et al (2004) First molecular evidence for reassessing phylogenetic affinities between genets (Genetta) and the enigmatic genet-like taxa Osbornictis, Poiana and Prionodon (Carnivora, Viverridae), Zoologica Scripta 33 2, 117-129

Silcox M. T., Bloch J. I., et al (2010) Cranial anatomy of Paleocene and Eocene Labidolemur kayi (Mammalia: Apatotheria), and the relationships of the Apatemyidae to other mammals, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160, 773-825

Werdelin L., Peigne S. (2010) Carnivora, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, 603-657

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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